Blue Marine is a UK registered charity was set up in 2010 by some of the team behind the award-winning documentary film ‘The End of the Line’. It aims to restore the ocean to heath by addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. The charity is dedicated to creating marine reserves, restoring vital habitats and establishing models of sustainable fishing. Blue Marine's mission is to see 30 per cent of the world’s ocean under effective protection by 2030.
I was at the Swanwick marina a few weeks ago. I was amazed at the numbers of oysters stuck to every static hard surface. The boat owners must have work to do scraping the oysters off their boats.
This is a beautiful documentation and I am so glad to have stumbled across you guys! Have you considered reaching out to other channels like Mossy Earth, Leave Curious etc. for more coverage?
Fantastic video of a fantastic project. As the no take zone Lobster population density increases could large healthy females be transferred to new no take zones to see new economic populations for fishers?
I'm very pleased to see the Eastney Pontoon and Bridge getting such good use. Not something that I envisaged when I designed it 40 years ago. Well done keep up the good work.
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Excellent restoration work but theres massive funding by fossil fuel corps for Carbon Credits backing it. Thats why this very expensive professionally made video is so slick. DON’T VOLUNTEER . Get PAID. www.bluemarinefoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Blue-Carbon-UK-Report_Final-1.pdf
It seems like they are being way too careful about it. Can't they just buy a few truckloads of oysters and dump them around the bay? Do they really need to be cleaned and each handled first?
Thanks for the comment. We understand that it may come across that we are being over cautious, however, biosecurity is actually one of the most important steps for oyster restoration where there is no longer a reproductively viable population in the area and you have to bring them in from elsewhere. Not only ecologically, but organisationally for our reputation as a legitimate oyster restoration project we need to do everything in our power to ensure we are making the environment a better place, not making it worse. Invasive non-native species are one of the major causes of biodiversity loss both on land and in the sea. We want to do everything within our power to ensure that we minimise any opportunities for these species to piggyback on movements of native oysters. Along with experts from around the world, we have complied a set of best practice guidelines that allow projects to follow procedures, if we are not following them ourselves, then we are not setting the right example for others. We also have a legal duty as these biosecurity procedures are written into our marine licences. Although biosecurity takes a long time, it is the best option we have until we can scale up production of native oysters in the local waters.
Only problem is that they have not introduced the oyster that were on the south coast. It is the northern pacific oyster that lives in brackish water, since the introduction, they have spread right up the tidal rivers. The reason what the oyster started to disappear was because the gravel is disappearing and sand is replacing it, this is happening because we are no longer getting gravel moving up the channel from the Celtic sea. Stanwood bay was the biggest oyster bed in the Solent, but it as nearly all gone, the SOA did try for years to keep the oyster numbers up by dropping broken tiles, with every storm the gravel moves and sand moves in to replace. Also this what other marine life are they killing off
My view is anything that has been destroyed can be restored. Marine habitats, fish stocks, woodlands. Left alone these places will be restored naturally but that's not to say that a bit of help isn't welcome to speed up the process. Nature is part of our being and being IN nature is both uplifting and primeval. We belong to nature.
The Climate has always Changed, and at present the atmospheric conditions of the entire Solar system are in a state of fundamental change. The cause of which is not the Trace atmospheric Gas of Life CO2 which on Earth accounts for just 0.04% of which Human activities account for 0.32%. 0.32% of 0.04% comes to 0.0128%. Plants do not photosynthesise if CO2 falls to 185 PPM and have trouble at 225 PPM, current levels of 400 PPM could be increased to the benefit of plant life and are indeed raised in greenhouses to increase production of food.
How would the kelp come back, would it be a case of sprinking kelp 'seeds' along the coastline? Or wait and hope that it comes back naturally? With so much sea available, having an exclusion of just a few km along the coast seems a small ask for the benefits it could bring
fantastic the UK is doing its bit to rewild and conserve the sea environment. Unfortunately here in Australia and more specifically Tasmanian we have lost 90% of the kemp beds in Tassie due to climate change - the sea has become too warm for the kelp to grow. Fish only seen in warmer waters further north are moving down to Tasmania as the water is getting much warmer. Not sure how this is going to play out as sea temps worldwide continue to rise...
